Hermann Hofle

Hermann Hofle (12 September 1898-9 December 1947) was a German SS Obergruppenfuhrer during World War II who helped in the quelling of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Biography
Hermann Hofle was born on 12 September 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire. He served in World War I in the Imperial German Army before joining the Freikorps in the German Revolution and joining the Nazi Party and SS. He took part in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch under Adolf Hitler, and he led SS units and the National Socialist Motor Corps during World War II. From September 1944 to May 1945, Hofle was an SS and Police Leader during the Slovak National Uprising, crushing the rebels and killing several innocent people and rebels. After the end of the war, Hofle and Hanns Ludin were both sentenced to death by Czechoslovakia for crimes against humanity, and he was hanged on 9 December 1947.